27/05/2026
Happy to share our collaboration with Lesiba Mabistela, (souvenirs_of_conflict) a South African Fashion
Practitioner on a series of clothes and these customs are part of this capsule collection. When
we met this year again during our collaborative workshop series, Lesela as a Calico, we had
deep conversations about textile making and local textiles including cotton and bark cloth
(Lubugo). This later culminated into an ongoing collaborative project PAMBA with Mona Okulla
Obua, .okulla.obua who is a German Ugandan video artist where we all create from with
in the Ugandan landscape to document but also to share the metaphoric and poetic surface of
cotton and land in Uganda. The material used in this work is purely 100% Ugandan Cotton which
is turned into fabric at TEXDA, . We had a lot of insight about textile
technologies and also interface with local workers that have decided to taken on the journey of
textile making for most time in their lives. These garments share a number of hands and
thoughts and we’re happy to also have our hands on this, slowly made but carefully thought of.
Special thanks to Mum Grace at TEXDA &
African Fashion Research Institute .
